Contributors

Beth Pratt Beth is Regional Executive Director of the California Regional Center of the National Wildlife Federation. She has worked in environmental leadership roles for over twentyfive years, and in two of the country’s largest national parks: Yosemite and Yellowstone. Beth is the author of the book, When Mountain Lions are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out In California.

Chris Reed Chris Reed is Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture and Co-Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Program at the Harvard GSD. He is also Founding Director of Stoss Landscape Urbanism. He is recognized internationally as a leading voice in the transformation of landscapes and cities, and he works alternately as a researcher, strategist, teacher, designer, and advisor. Reed is particularly interested in the relationships between landscape and ecology, infrastructure, social spaces, and cities.

173 Huge thanks to our co-sponsors and constant sources of inspiration: the National Wildlife Federation, as joyfully represented by Beth Pratt; and ARC Solutions, with their amazing leadership and staff of Jeremy Guth, Renee Callahan, and Marta Brocki. These organizations and people donated enormous amounts of time, resources, and spirit to this studio—and inspired us all to think of wild creatures as kin. Enormous credit and thanks, too, to my co-conspirator, Nina-Marie Lister, who taught an adjacent research seminar of the same name and is a constant source of intellectual and personal energy.

I want to thank our review critics and our special presenters during the semester, who shared their wisdom and work with us: Kat Superfisky and Michelle Barton, both of the City of Los Angeles; Eric Howeler of the GSD and Howeler Yoon Architecture; Michael Maltzan of Michael Maltzan Architecture; and Rahul Mehrotra of the GSD and RMA Architects. Also, a special shout-out to our site tour guides, hosts, and reflection moderators while in Los Angeles: Beth Pratt of the National Wildlife Federation, who introduced us to the site of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing; Kat Superfisky of the City of Los Angeles; Lisa Fimiani of the Friends of Ballona Wetlands; Ms. Rosie Lee Hooks of the Watts Arts Center; Ron Finley, self-described “Guerilla Gardener”; Seth Baker of Huntington Gardens; the folks at the Hammer Museum, who hosted a reception sponsored by our friends and travel companions in the Loeb Fellowship Program; and curator, writer, and design critic Mimi Zeiger. None of this would have been possible without the incredibly hard work of research assistant Angela Moreno-Long, who worked for two semesters as researcher, organizer, trip tour guide, and all around advisor. Jenna Wu was a terrific and helpful teaching assistant during the semester, and Josiah Brown kicked in at the end to compile, design, and edit this beautiful report.

Last but not least, I am indebted to the eleven students in this studio, who took on this new agenda in a myriad of creative ways. And they did it with a spirit of generosity and inquisitiveness that went far beyond expectations. Each of you holds incredible promise for the future, and I am confident the world will be a better place knowing you are all at the helm.

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Wild Ways: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles

Instructors

Chris Reed

Report Design

Josiah Brown

Report Editor

Josiah Brown

Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture

Sarah Whiting

Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture

Anita Berrizbeitia

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Studio Report Spring 2022 Harvard GSD Department of Landscape Architecture

Students

Josiah Brown, Sarah Hopper, Haimei Li, Shuyue Li, Hattie Lindsley, Zeqi Liu, Marina Recio Rodriguez, Pitchapa Setpakdee, Juan Villalón Hernando, Zilan Wang, Ziting Wang